By Srivatsa Krishna

A good prologue to the metaverse story would be something that might surprise you. Today, everyone owns an iPhone or Android/Android fork device. However, there was a company called Nokia, which started as a pulp mill 150 years ago. As recently as 2000-01, it accounted for 4% of Finland’s GDP, 20% of its exports, and over 70% of the Helsinki Stock Exchange market capitalization. However, what most people can’t remember is that Nokia made the first touchscreen phone; it also made the first phone with a web browser, one of the first camera phones, and even an app store, all long before Apple introduced the iPhone, which of course changed everything! Apple invented only multitouch and iOS…